Weekly Roundup

Well, normally I would be writing this on a Friday, at least thats what my plan is. On a Friday I will write my views on my success of the past week and observations. Normally on a Thursday I plan on writing about my Alliance Project. I wrote out the post earlier today and left it on another computer. So I shall be trying to post that tomorrow instead of re-writing it tonight.

It is quite fortunate that I am writing this today as Stockpile posted an interesting post on farming that youu can read here. It was part of something I was going to touch on today. I have been a little disheartened this week. I have been at the AH game for a little over a week now but have only been trying the glyph market for about 3-4 days. I have been creating glyphs and posting them using QA3 and, although I may have not a huge amount on there (I started around 50 and started posting around 100 after a day or two, I would be getting 5-10 sales a day.

Now, I started looking at purchasing any IotS and herbs that I could but have been unhappy with what I have found. I struck it luckily earlier with getting 200 IotS at 1.9g each but since then I have only seen them for over 5g each. And whenit comes to herbs it is even worse. I have taken Stockpile's rule of buying lowend NR herbs at 15g a stack and highend for 20g or less. And pickings have been very slim. Oh, I bought a huge amount of Adder's Tongue today at 20g a stack. Huge! And got about 5 stacks of Icethorn for less than that but other than that, prices have been very high for small amounts most of the week. Today, a search on herbs have revealed 12 pages in total. Yesterday, it was 8-9. And that got me thinking.

I've heard that Blizzard have cracked down on farmers. I know that will hit the market but I am wondering if it is to do with the realm I am on. I play on an RP realm and the last time I checked Alliance outnumbered the Horde 3:1. I know the realm also went through some fluctuations in population too. It could be that we don't have a large number of farmers on our side. It could also be that I am catching the AH at a time when the posted stocks are thin and the farmers haven't replenished. I suspect I am going to need to learn how to keep an eye on fluctuations.

But then maybe it is like what was posted elsewhere. Prices fluctuate. Maybe I am in one of those upswings and I just need to wait for stock to rise and prices to fall.

So, overall, how have I been doing? I started the week with more money than the end of the week but then I am doing daily quests in the tournament. My scribe is down in funds but then he has over 300 IotS in the bank and over 300 glyphs on the AH. Just got to hope they sell. My enchanter is doing small business with the odd scroll sale but I need to increase his output. Time to start looking into the enchanting business. He makes a small sideline in netherweave bags as well but only when cloth is around 4g. I may buy at 5 seeing as bags are selling around 10g each. And my mid-level blacksmith sells the odd rod and occasional engineering pet he has in storage.

Sales are slow but diverse. The keeps dipping a little deeper in. I can say I am entering the market slowly, just have to see if the market accepts me.